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[edit] Welcome to My User Page

I'm an off-&-on-again Wikia user (on account of having bipolar disorder) with four wiki's to my name.

"When it's good, it's really good, and when it's bad I go to pieces" ~ David Bowie, Sweet Thing

Contents 1 Welcome to My User Page 1.1 CC.LDN.wiki – A Climate Camp London Collaboration 1.2 MarioMarconipedia 1.3 Lag4Peace 1.4 Personal Background to the creation of the Free Repair Campaign for Apple 17inch PowerBooks mini Wiki

[edit] CC.LDN.wiki – A Climate Camp London Collaboration

My fourth Wikia project marks a return to wellness, and a redoubling of my determination to foster critical questioning in the minds of the citizenry in general on all issues relating to climate change, and to assist those lucky few who have realised that minimising catastrophic climate chaos means transcending the sterile conformity of bourgeois representative politics and staid formulaic demonstrations, to embrace applying our political power directly and in unison – and never giving our power away to politicians, union bureaucrats or cops. The sooner we can welcome an ever expanding proportion of the citizenry to the ranks of our direct action movements, the greater our ability to confront and defeat the climate criminal enterprises and their tame, obedient, lapdog bourgeois politician apologist scum, such as those in 'New' Labour, UK.

[edit] MarioMarconipedia

My third Wikia project is a collection of comedy gold all about Warrington's own Mario Marconi, who stepped out onto the world stage on 05 June 2008, as a housemate on the United Kingdom's Big Brother 9 game show. Several posters at the Digital Spy Big Brother forum thread Facts About Mario decided to make the best of the fascinating 5,000+ (and rising) Facts there much more accessible to the BB audience by a process of wikification.

[edit] Lag4Peace

My second Wikia project was a wiki for Lag4Peace, a coalition of Peace, Left and Environmental Groups and individuals in Second Life campaigning against war in Real Life. Unfortunately, I had to curtail my presence in Second Life for reasons to do with health and finance.

[edit] Personal Background to the creation of the
Free Repair Campaign for Apple 17inch PowerBooks mini Wiki

In my professional career in IT Support at a London university in the UK, I have supported PCs, Macs and Unix workstations. As a personal technology consumer, I have been a loyal and satisfied Apple customer for the last 15 years, during which time I have wholeheartedly endorsed and recommended Mac computers and Newton PDAs – on which recommendation many friends, acquaintances and organisations have bought their own Mac(s) and/or Newton(s).

In Mar 05 I spent UKP1,949.00 on my fifth Mac computer: a PowerBook G4 17inch 1.67Ghz notebook with 1GB of RAM. Since my prior experience with Apple products had been that they are completely reliable and do not break down, I didn’t feel that an AppleCare Protection Plan was necessary. In Feb 07, a manufacturing defect in the the TFT LCD display began to show up: first there was one one-pixel-wide yellow vertical line, spanning the full depth of the display from top to bottom, then another one in magenta, then a third in cyan – and so on till today, when there are 26 one-pixel-wide vertical lines and counting.

I initially tried using my Yahoo! 360 blog to raise the profile of the Dreaded "Bridget Riley" vertical lines display defect. When the volume of info and the need to collaborate outgrew the limitations of the blog format, I founded the Free Repair Campaign for Apple 17inch PowerBooks mini Wiki.

In researching this issue on the net, I’ve discovered some unpleasant and unpalatable truths about how Apple deals with defective product issues. Nevertheless, I’m optimistic that with goodwill on all sides, we can achieve a mutually acceptable solution to this issue, by actively taking steps to encourage Apple to follow the fine example set by Dell's Repair Program and instigate an appropriate global Display Repair Extension Program.
Dalinian 22:08, 28 May 2007 (UTC)